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Meanings of propertyless in English

Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers.

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      Usage of propertyless in English
      1
      He would only unite with the poor, propertyless peasants.
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      2
      To tell the truth of him,-thoughhe was not absolutely penniless, he was altogether propertyless.
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      3
      An uneducated, underbred, and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty.
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      4
      In the early 19th century, the same state constitutional conventions that gave the vote to propertyless white men disenfranchised free Blacks.
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